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Stata for Mac is frequently managed by K2. With the release of KeyAccess 7.4.0.7, the way that the Stata program is identified has been changed, to allow distinct entries for different editions of Stata. If the Product Recognition Service (PRS) is enabled within K2, standard definitions for Stata have automatically been updated. If however, PRS […]

K2 has included an availability map feature since 7.2. Some of the main functionality is explained in an earlier post about Availability Maps as well as in the Documentation on Availability Maps. With the release of K2 7.4 the basic functionality has been augmented with two new features. Heat Maps The first new feature is […]

To read how to enforce Bentley’s 10-minute Term licensing with K2 7.3, see this earlier post. Earlier this year, Bentley customers started to receive an email from Bentley titled “New Improvements to your Term License”. The essential change was to reduce “the interval used to calculate usage from one hour to ten minutes.” Details at […]

To read how to enforce Bentley’s 10-minute Term licensing with K2 7.4, see this new post. Earlier this year, Bentley customers started to receive an email from Bentley titled “New Improvements to your Term License”. The essential change was to reduce “the interval used to calculate usage from one hour to ten minutes.” Details at the time […]

Adobe has recently made available a June 2016 release of Creative Cloud. We have added corresponding product definitions to PRS. As usual, they will automatically be added to your Products window whenever your KeyServer has discovered a similar footprint on your site. For several years now there has been a new CC release each June. In past […]

One of the reports we have recently added is the Product Optimizations report. This report aims to help you achieve cost savings by pointing out alternatives to expensive suite products. Frequently a comprehensive suite product is purchased and installed on a large number of computers when many of those computers only need a single application […]

K2 is a powerful Hardware Asset Management tool. The KeyAccess client collects many hardware properties which are saved in the Computer Database. However, Computer records also have some additional fields that can be populated individually or in bulk using a choice of methods. This post will show how to populate those fields via a data […]

It can be hard to find the time to explore all of K2’s functionality, or to get around to taking advantage of a feature even after realizing its value. One very useful feature that may have been overlooked is “Availability Maps”. This feature was added first in 7.2 as part of the KeyReporter web functionality, […]

In the 2015-02-25 image, we have added six new Login reports. Here’s a quick peek at one of them: The report above lets you easily compare computer utilization on different days. This report has been customized to show days, with no further detail – but it can be configured to be more granular, displaying distinct […]

The ITAM Review has released the scores of its latest ITAM tools customer satisfaction survey. Sassafras was voted #1 of the seven ranked publishers, out of a field of 22 companies! It’s gratifying to receive the formal recognition provided by independent surveys such as The ITAM Review. The daily informal feedback we get directly from […]